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CRANBERRY HEATH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cranberry heath mean?
• CRANBERRY HEATH (noun)
The noun CRANBERRY HEATH has 1 sense:
1. small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia
Familiarity information: CRANBERRY HEATH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Astroloma humifusum; cranberry heath; ground-berry; groundberry; native cranberry; Styphelia humifusum
Hypernyms ("cranberry heath" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("cranberry heath" is a member of...):
Astroloma; genus Astroloma (evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania)
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